The Pegasus Dwarf (also known as Andromeda VI or Peg dSph for short) is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy about 2.5 million light-years away in the constellation Pegasus. The Pegasus Dwarf is a member of the Local group of galaxies and a satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31).

General information

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Pegasus Dwarf Spheroidal is a galaxy with mainly metal-poor stellar populations. It is located at the right ascension 23h51m46.30s and declination +24d34m57.0s in the equatorial coordinate system (epoch J2000.0), and in a distance of 775 ± 35 kpc from Earth and a distance of 271 kpc from the Andromeda Galaxy.

Pegasus Dwarf Spheroidal was discovered in 1999 by various authors on the Second Palomar Sky Survey (POSS-II) films.

Other resources

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External links

• NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database: Pegasus Dwarf Spheroidal
• Armandroff, Jacoby, & Davies, "Low Surface Brightness Galaxies around M31", Astrophys. J. 118, 1220-1229 (1999).

See also

• Andromeda's satellite galaxies
• Pegasus Dwarf Irregular Galaxy (Peg DIG)
• Pegasus galaxy, the Stargate Atlantis fictional location.

Dwarf spheroidal galaxies | LSB galaxies | Andromeda Subgroup | Pegasus constellation

Pegasus-Zwerggalaxie | Andromeda VI